| Make change happen |
| 'Obsessive interest'.... |
| Cross the rubicon |
| Deliberate practice |
| "Advice> feedback" |
| Authoritative parenting is demanding and supportive |
| Five minute favor |
Hi Sulaiman,
Welcome to your personalized Grit Lab Report!
We will go week by week, reviewing everything you have told us through Poll Everywhere.
We hope this will help you reflect on what you have learned and experienced during Grit Lab.
Important note!
Sometimes, you may not have been able to respond to all polls.
If the data for one of the polls is missing, the automatic report will display NA, or ““.
Okay, let’s get started!
The first half of Grit Lab delves deep intp the passion facet of Grit.
We like to call it Choose Easy, because we think gritty people pursue what they enjoy.
Putting it graphically, gritty people tend to pursue the intersection of these four circles.
The first time we met, you told us where you were on the grit rubric.
Regarding passion you picked Stage 3: I’m actively figuring out what my interests are by trying one or more of them out in some way .
Regarding perseverance you picked .
As you know, grit grows, so don’t worry if you are not yet where you’d like to be in your grit journey.
Hopefully, this class will help you become grittier each day.
In week 2, we looked at your interests.
Interest is an emotion, and it is the opposite of boredom.
Your interests are the activities or subjects that spontaneously grab your attention.
Trying things out and seeing how you feel is the best way to refine your interests.
In week 3, we studied values, your beliefs about what is important.
You said your top three values were self-direction, achievement, and tradition.
You wrote a “This I Believe” essay, and here’s where you located it on Schwartz’s value taxonomy.
When we talked about strengths in week 4, you said your personality strength was .
You said your top three talents were NA, NA, and NA.
We then talked about goal hierarchies.
You said you had a pretty good idea about your top-level goal.
We discussed self-concordance, or how much a goal aligns to your deeply held values and beliefs.
A goal you said you will be pursuing for the next six months is to get a job .
Here is how self-concordant that goal was:
Don’t worry if your self-concordance for that particular goal is low.
It might mean that you need to reframe that goal in a way that makes it more relevant to your deep self, or change it!
Remember that self-concordance is goal specific, so other goals might be more self-concordant.
We then transitioned to the second part of Grit Lab:
Work Smart
In week 6, we looked at goal setting and planning.
You WOOPed!
For your Wish, what you wanted to accomplish, you said Pray when I wake up .
For your Outcome, what would happen if your wish came true, you said Feel connected with God .
For you Obstacle, what it is within you that stands in your way, you said Tired at night + light doesn’t work .
For your Plan, you created this when-then plan to achieve your goal: When I wake up, then I will pray .
Whether you changed your WOOP or stuck to that one, here’s where it landed between being a total fail, and going exactly according to plan.
And here’s how much you learned
These goals are hard, and despite our best efforts, our plans can fail.
The important thing is that you learn something along the way!
In week 7, we talked about deliberate practice.
You shared you’ve done daily practice in Health .
We learned that deliberate practice requires a challenging, hyperspecific goal, maximum concentration, instant feedback, and is often done alone.
In week 8, we discussed feedback.
Even though feedback can be hard to take, it is often the key to improve. So if you want to improve, seek it actively!
You said you felt Unfair when receiving critical feedback, and Unfair when receiving positive feedback.
We then turned to learning about stress.
In week 9, you reported feeling of stress in your life right now, the primary source of it being .
We also talked about adversity and failure.
Although related, adversity and failure are different:
Adversity happens to us, whereas failure is something for which we are generally more responsible.
However, how we interpret stress and failure matters…
Interestingly, research has found that people who believe that stress can facilitate learning and growth experience enhanced performance, well-being, and health.
And failure—not achieving a particular goal—can be interpreted as “I’m learning!” and lead you to look for the lesson in that experience.
We closed the Work Smart section of the class by talking about habits.
Throughout the semester, you practice habit building using your Build-A-Habit Guide book.
You describe the habit you chose as Health .
Whether you were successful in habit building or not, this is how much you learned.
Finally, what good is grit if we do not dream for others?
So, we transitioned to Paying it Forward.
In week 10, we looked at mentors: role models that take an active role in your growth.
Hopefully, your mentor was authoritative, being both supportive and demanding.
Here’s how you described them:
You also wrote a gratitude letter to Other .
In one word, you said it made you feel Happy .
One way of paying it forward is having a prosocial, beyond-the-self purpose. Here’s how you responded to items assessing that.
… and so quickly we arrived at the end of the semester.
Here’s how your mood varied over these weeks.
Do you notice any patterns? Is there anything that correlates with your mood?
Here you can scroll through all the quotes you wrote to summarize each class.
| Make change happen |
| 'Obsessive interest'.... |
| Cross the rubicon |
| Deliberate practice |
| "Advice> feedback" |
| Authoritative parenting is demanding and supportive |
| Five minute favor |
In the final class, we looked back to everything we’ve learned together and to how our passion and perseverance evolved during this class.
Here are the comments from your Grit Lab Teammates:
| Lilah Epstein |
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| Sulaiman always brought amazing energy to our group discussions. His thoughtful questions and careful listening showed the many ways that he is a caring and genuine person. Not only is he kind, but Sully appears to carry an incredible confidence that after years and years of practice some can never truly master. He is evidently a natural leader and his dedication to his interests in business ventures and startups leaves no doubt in my mind that he will create some awesome projects in the future. It is clear that he has a soft spot for family as well, and the stories he has shared about his younger sister highlights the kindness that he has to share with the world. It was really great getting to know Sully this semester! I won’t lie, Sully’s Discovery Project presentation surpassed my threshold of understanding business/startup jargon. That being said, I was incredibly impressed by the dedication Sully put into the creation of a mock startup pitch he shared with the group. Sully’s presentation was focused on his mock development of an app called Hestia which would be used to make investing in real estate an easier process, similar to the simplicity of buying and selling stocks. While I know little about real estate, Sully presented his pitch in an extremely clear and insightful way. Sully was engaging throughout the entirety of his presentation and certainly left a hard act to follow when I was expected to present directly after! |
| Stefani Turcios-Moya |
| Sully has been a pleasure and a great teammate this semester. I enjoyed your positive attitude you brought to the group every class. I appreciated your perspective and your insights you brought to our team discussions. I enjoyed learning about your passions and interests and it was interesting to learn about a field I had to previous knowledge about before this semester. Getting to know more about you was very nice and liked that we shared some things in common, for example finding ways to help our younger siblings especially with academics. Sully's discovery project just like Michelle's was more career focused. His presentation was about how to add liquidity to real estate. I have very little knowledge of the real estate market but I learned a lot during his presentation. I enjoyed it and Sully made it interesting and not boring like other people make real estate and money ought to be. He discussed his hypothetical startup that will help solve the issue of real estate liquidity in today's market. He mentioned how crowdfunding is a problem in real estate and it would be helpful if there was a platform where you can purchase a portion of a home to make it more accessible. Sully's enthusiasm for this topic was noticeable and it was great to witness him in his element and I was glad to have learned about something new and would like to delve into the topic more on my own. |
We hope you have emerged from Grit Lab a little grittier than you started.
Do you want to see how your grit rubric changed?
Drumroll please…
Don’t worry if the rubric doesn’t yet reflect growth. It is only a coarse measure that cannot replace your own self-reflection.
In any case, grit is not built in a day…
…remember that progress is never smooth…
…so stay passionate and persevering in the lifelong quest of choosing easy, working smart, and paying it forward.
With grit and gratitude,
Angela and the Grit Lab team.